STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 58, sig. 109-1/64

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242 Central Administration No. Z: HB/42. Prague, 23 September 1942. Government Director Wehdeking of the Chief Finance President of Prague has been appointed by you with a decree from the l9.7.d.J. to provide for a tight summary of housing care for civil servants.In conclusion of this order, he has reported among other things: "The fair distribution of the living space, which is suitable for Germans, is currently suffering from the multiplicity of places dealing with the distribution and forgiveness of dwellings. In this way, the following places are currently communicating or awarding dwellings: 1. the secret state police, state police head office Prague, 2. the central office for the settlement of the Jewish question in Bohemia and Moravia, 3. the wealth office at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia, 4. the General Trust A.G., 5. the administrative and exploitation office of the emigration fund for Bohemia and Mähren, 6. NSDaP's commissioner for housing, 7th the Land Office, 8th the magistrate of the capital Prague (the Housing Group), 9th the Wehrmacht Housing Office, 10th the Chief Finance President Prague. The closer the individual department of a source is to come from free dwellings,the better it can provide for the circle of the persons seeking it.The further away the department is from this source,the more it is dependent on what the nearby departments cannot use. In such circumstances, a fair distribution of the housing generated is excluded.In addition,this multiplicity of services involved in the distribution of housing inevitably results in the applicant seeking to apply to as many of these services as possible for an apartment.A plethora of requests and pre-languages leading to a waste of paper, time and energy that is not responsible in times of war is the further consequence. These maladministrations could be dealt with substantially in the light of the fact that, for the capital city of Prague, at least the collection of housing,the German service or officially appointed trustees are managing or releasing them in the